FRUIT-TREE FIGURES.

Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2644, 13 October 1919, Page 7

FRUIT-TREE FIGURES.

We are all feeling rather depressed abo'at our fruit this year, for the rascally cattcrpillar has ruined our high hopes. But although our trees are bearing so badly they have long lives, ami if properly cared for will live for many a year to come. The life of an apnle tree may be any tiling from twenty-five to forty years. Plum-trees arc not quite so long-lived, twenty-live years being about their limit. Pear-trees grow to a ripe old age. You may reckon on fifty years with confidence, and some hardy veterans bear up to the age of seventy-five. Raspberry and blackberry bushes, on the other hand, never grow beyond mere children. They die as a rule between six and fourteen years. The average life of a currant bush is twenty years, hut gooseberries show a nasty drop to ten years, while the strawberry enjoys but a mere three years’ span of existence.